Members of the Indian River School Board expressed frustration at yesterday’s meeting with Governor Jack Markell over the impact of the state taking in over a hundred unaccompanied undocumented children.

The federal government has place 117 of them with families in Delaware.

Superintendent Susan Bunting told the board that the children will attend schools in the district promising to work with them.

The Salisbury Daily Times reports that in recent years there has been a surge of overall student population including Sussex Central High School.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Martin O'Malley is scheduled to meet with clergy leaders for the second time to talk about how to help some of the thousands of unaccompanied children who have come across the border from Central America

BALTIMORE (AP) - Maryland's governor says a state jail in Baltimore will no longer automatically comply with federal requests to hold immigrants past their release date for possible deportation.

Gov. Martin O'Malley says the Baltimore City Detention Center will now consider the severity of the charges a person is facing when reviewing U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement requests to hold immigrants through the "Secure Communities" program. O'Malley notified Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson of the change in a letter released last week.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Maryland House of Delegates advanced a measure that would allow people with an unlawful immigration status to continue to obtain driver's licenses.

If passed, the bill would make permanent an existing two-tiered driver's license system, striking down the state's 2015 deadline for people in the country illegally to get rid of their Maryland driver's licenses.

President Obama created a new program that will allow young undocumented immigrants to defer deportation for the next two years. Delmarva Public Radio presents two features. Charito Calvachi-Mateyko provided repetorial work on the Festival Hispano segment.